Wilton Historical Society

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Since its establishment in 1938, the Wilton Historical Society has been committed to preserve Wilton’s history, and connect, engage and educate all who would look to the past to shape the future. Our vision:

A collaborative organization that is fiscally sound, with an engaged board and membership, inspiring architectural preservation and historical literacy

From Wire Mills to Microchips: Wilton’s History of Technology🎞️💾📺📸This panel discussion will follow the stories of three...
09/04/2026

From Wire Mills to Microchips: Wilton’s History of Technology🎞️💾📺📸

This panel discussion will follow the stories of three companies, the Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Co., the precision optics of PerkinElmer to ASML, and Cannondale Bicycle.

Join us in discussion with Director of the Wilton Historical Society Nick Foster, ASML Fellow Chip Mason, tech policy lecturer Bill Bonvillian, and Cannondale Director of R&D and testing Curtis Detwiler.

📆 Thursday, September 24, 2026
⏰ 6:00pm - 7:00pm
📍 224 Danbury Rd. Wilton, CT 06897

The event is free for Historical Society members. For non-members, there is a $10.00 fee.

Register at our website, wiltonhistorical.org!

This event is co-sponsored by the Wilton Library📚

Join lecturer Christine Hauck for a program focusing on the American Revolutionary Era (1763–1783) and what the residen...
08/28/2026

Join lecturer Christine Hauck for a program focusing on the American Revolutionary Era (1763–1783) and what the residents of Wilton in 1776 would have been listening to at the time. Christine will share her research journey to identify the top composers or music makers of the area and the types of music popular in 1776 from patriotic and marching songs to social and dance music, to psalms and symphonies.

📆 Wednesday, September 2nd
⏰ 7pm
📍 Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Rd. Wilton, CT 06897

Registration Required

Wilton Historical Society Members – FREE
Non-Members – $10

Last night was all about saying THANK YOU!💛We hosted our Annual Thank You Cookout to celebrate the incredible members, v...
08/28/2026

Last night was all about saying THANK YOU!💛

We hosted our Annual Thank You Cookout to celebrate the incredible members, volunteers, and donors who make the Wilton Historical Society possible. We were so lucky that the rain stayed away, giving us the perfect evening to gather, enjoy some good food, and celebrate with so many of you!

Thank you for your continued support, dedication, and love for the Society. We’re so grateful to have you as part of our community and are excited to kick off another great year together!🌟

Here’s to another year of history, community, and making memories at WHS!🥂

Here’s your Wilton Historygram!The Cheese Spring Road neighborhood featured a typical mixture of heavily wooded plots in...
08/27/2026

Here’s your Wilton Historygram!

The Cheese Spring Road neighborhood featured a typical mixture of heavily wooded plots interspersed with farmhouses, agricultural fields, and scattered sawmills throughout much of the 1800s. While apparently idyllic, the area is perhaps most famous for a grisly murder-suicide that took place on an isolated property straddling the New Canaan-Wilton border in 1898. The widow Susan Anderson was found in her own pig sty, somewhat over two weeks after she had been killed. The culprit – discovered hanging in a nearby tree – was her employee Frederick Hanahan. Besides killing Susan, Frederick had torched the house and barn. Newspaper coverage from the time suggested that Susan had been a difficult boss, withholding wages, denying food, and – in the past with a previous employee – even causing physical harm. For more details, see Robert H. Russell’s book on Wilton!

Photograph: The ruins of another Cheese Spring Road farmhouse, Polly Comstock’s place, 1899

History is Here! Visit the Wilton Historical Society and the History Room at the Wilton Library to learn more.

Join us this Thursday, August 20th at 7:00 pm for a presentation by professor emerita and publisher Kathy Hermes.📚🇺🇸The ...
08/18/2026

Join us this Thursday, August 20th at 7:00 pm for a presentation by professor emerita and publisher Kathy Hermes.📚🇺🇸

The talk will explore how women contributed to the American Revolutionary effort politically, economically, intellectually, and even militarily. Using original sources like newspapers, court records, letters, and pension records, Dr. Hermes will show how Indigenous, Anglo-European, and African-descended women all helped to further the Patriot cause.

Please visit our website, wiltonhistorical.org to learn more and register!

To show our appreciation and to close out the summer, please join us for a free cookout on Thursday, August 27th from 5:...
08/16/2026

To show our appreciation and to close out the summer, please join us for a free cookout on Thursday, August 27th from 5:30 to 7:30pm for food, drinks, games and fun!🍔🎶🌤️

This event is FREE and open to any current Wilton Historical Society Members!

Not a member?! You can easily become one on our website, wiltonhistorical.org!

Looking forward to a wonderful evening!✨

Join us at the Wilton Historical Society, Thursday, August 20th from 7-8pm for this fascinating lecture!🌟This lecture by...
08/08/2026

Join us at the Wilton Historical Society, Thursday, August 20th from 7-8pm for this fascinating lecture!🌟

This lecture by professor emerita and publisher
Kathy Hermes will explore how women contributed to the American Revolutionary effort politically, economically, intellectually, and even militarily. Primary sources like newspapers, court records, letters, will show how Indigenous, Anglo-European, and African-descended women all helped to further the Patriot cause.

The event is free for Historical Society members!

For non-members, there is a $10 fee.

🔗Please register at our website, wiltonhistorical.org

Address

224 Danbury Road
Wilton, CT
06897

Opening Hours

Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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(203) 762-7257

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